Body Mass Index Genetic Risk Score and Endometrial Cancer Risk

Body Mass Index Genetic Risk Score and Endometrial Cancer Risk

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common variants that predispose individuals to a higher body mass index (BMI), an independent risk factor for endometrial cancer. Composite genotype risk scores (GRS) based on the joint effect of published BMI risk loci were used to explore whet...

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Main Authors: Prescott, Jennifer, Setiawan, Veronica W., Wentzensen, Nicolas, Schumacher, Fredrick, Yu, Herbert, Delahanty, Ryan, Bernstein, Leslie, Chanock, Stephen J., Chen, Chu, Cook, Linda S., Friedenreich, Christine, Garcia-Closas, Monserrat, Haiman, Christopher A., Le Marchand, Loic, Liang, Xiaolin, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Lingeng, Magliocco, Anthony M., Olson, Sara H., Risch, Harvey A., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Ursin, Giske, Yang, Hannah P., Kraft, Peter, De Vivo, Immaculata
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659592/

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